Apple ID Disaster

Excited to get the iPhone 4S, and update my iPad and iPhones to iOS5, iCloud, I didn't foresee this problem.
Basically, I am unable to merge two of my Apple ID's into one to use in iCloud.
When I moved my MobileMe to iCloud, moving my contacts, calendars, email, I used my @mac.com Apple ID that I created since I got the Mac.com service. It worked great, but when I setup my iPhone and iPad with the iCloud, I was unable to see my previous purchases. Basically $$$$ of movie, song, App purchases I made in iTunes with the Apple ID I created when I first used iTunes with @gmail.com
I called the Apple care to get it fixed on my brand new iPhone 4S, but basically there is no way to fix this.
You can create your iCloud with @gmail.com with all your purchases, but you can forget about using iCloud with notes, calendar, contacts from mobileme.com. With my existing iCloud that I merged my mobile.com, now I can't add the purchases.
I hope Apple fixes this disasterous problem soon since I see many people have the same problem.

Hey Ferrous,
The documentation for this release was pretty bad and you are not alone in getting lost in it. Apple failed to make it very clear that every Apple account (i.e. @mac.com, @me.com, etc.) is also an Apple ID and that Apple IDs can't be merged, deleted, or changed. The only Apple ID that has any flexibility is what I am calling the Anonymous Apple ID (for lack of an official name by Apple) which is tied to a 3rd party email account. It is the only Apple ID that can have its login ID changed, but only to another 3rd party email address.
All non-Apple computer users that have Apple toys, are using an Anonymous Apple ID. It is the Apple ID that all of your purchases are tied to, and as you are probably aware, purchases cannot be transferred to another account. During the initial setup of your first iOS 5 device for a specific Anonymous Apple ID, you can create a new iCloud account with a NEW (never used before, not even as an alias) @me.com address that will tied to that Anonymous Apple ID, but it cannot be any @me.com that currently exists (active or not).
The problem is that Apple really messed up with the way that they presented this to the user, confusing them so much that they made the wrong selections, which as you stated are permanent. However, there is a work around. You can add additional iCloud accounts to all of your devices. Turn on all of the sync features for the account that you want everything to sync with, and only the Mail syncing for all the others. In most cases, you will want to do this with your Anonymous Apple ID if you are a non-Apple computer user, and your @mac.com or MobileMe account that was converted to an iCloud @me.com account if you are an Apple computer user.
I can see that Apple was trying to do everything at once to make it simple for users to upgrade; however, there is nothing simple about this upgrade. It would have been much simpler, and easier for users to understand what they were being asked, if they had been required to visit a web site (from their computer) to set all of this up, instead of forcing users to do all of this from a tiny mobile device. There are rumors that Apple may be working on ways to merge/delete/change Apple IDs, but we'll have to wait and see.
Good luck,
Bill

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